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Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly made most readers'' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor''s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.

These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O''Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties.

Those seminal columns have been collected in The Wily O''Reilly: Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylor''s legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet O''Reilly for the very first time.

An ex-Navy boxing champion, classical scholar, crypto-philanthropist, widower, and hard-working general practitioner, Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly is crafty a

Wily OReilly

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      Publisher Forge
      Published 2/24/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780765338396
      978-0765338396
      ISBN-10 0765338394

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly made most readers'' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor''s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.

      These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O''Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties.

      Those seminal columns have been collected in The Wily O''Reilly: Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylor''s legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet O''Reilly for the very first time.

      An ex-Navy boxing champion, classical scholar, crypto-philanthropist, widower, and hard-working general practitioner, Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly is crafty a

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